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MechanicalBengal t1_j6jwoyn wrote

What’s killing news is the ability for companies like Sinclair to buy as many stations as they want, with no guarantee they’re actually telling people the truth when they report “the news”

https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI

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Awesomethecool t1_j6jvuu3 wrote

It's not correct, it has never been correct, it will never be correct, and it is not even CLOSE to the correct way of using those words. How the fuck do so many people use 'of' instead of 'have'?

The worst part is that 90% of the time it's Americans making the mistake, whose native language is ENGLISH

Sorry to be a grammar nazi but it's literally the most nonsensical grammar issue of all time.

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abiessu t1_j6jvg3j wrote

A similar argument can be made that touch-typing isn't really necessary to get good use out of a computer. This doesn't negate the fact that someone who learns it (and by extension might take the time to learn keyboard combinations) has a good chance of out-performing someone else who hasn't learned one or both in terms of "raw speed to do a task" in text-editing environments.

In "visual logic" or "block" programming, there's obviously no comparison since the mouse is actually required...

But going back to the shower thought that hacker-types in movies don't appear to use the mouse often, this is appropriate because the tools such a person typically uses are much more suited for keyboard-only interaction, even in their programming environments.

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